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Bauer, Lieut. Governor Andre • denial of gayness by does nothing to halt the spread of rumors about the gayness of, which are rumored to have been spread by the man who would be succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...loudest outcry over the education speech President Obama plans to deliver to U.S. primary and secondary students via webcast and C-Span next Tuesday, Sept. 8. In perhaps the most over-the-top performance, state Republican chairman Jim Greer called it an attempt to use "our children to spread liberal propaganda" and "President Obama's socialist ideology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Schools to Big Brother Barack: Stay Out! | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...Looking to do something responsible with my power, I announced to my followers that CNN host Rick Sanchez is my sworn nemesis and asked them to spread false rumors about him, including one about how he gambled on the Olympics against America. Four of them did. This is because, as with all numbers given for what people do on the web, I do not really have anywhere near the 700,000 followers twitter claims. I have 700,000 followers who signed up for twitter once and never looked at it again. I figure maybe 5,000 people read my tweets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaquille O'Neal vs. Joel Stein on Twitter | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...attempt to decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies and slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV around the world has to be a good thing, right? That's what the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) thought. But now it finds itself under fire from American conservatives for proposing a new set of guidelines on sex education in schools as a means of helping young people avoid potentially dangerous sexual activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Conservatives Attack UNESCO's Sex-Ed Guidelines | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...many years, the wings were a regional food found only in New York and surrounding areas. But something that delicious can't be kept a secret forever and by the mid-1980s Buffalo wings had spread across the country. In 1993, a Philadelphia radio station hosted the first annual Wing Bowl eating contest, and over the years it has grown to become one of the competitive-eating circuit's most prestigious events, drawing crowds well over 20,000. The Wing Bowl record currently belongs to Joey Chestnut, who in 2008 consumed 241 wings in two 14-minute periods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buffalo Wings | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

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